| 单词 | regent house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRegent House Regent House n. the governing body and principal electoral constituency of Cambridge University, originally the upper of the two houses into which the university Senate was divided; the building in which this body meets; (later also) the common room used by members of this body. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > governing body potestate1530 Regent House1573 seniority1687 caput1716 senate1736 senatus1835 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 18 I have not yit bene so courst and galled in our own House as I am like hereafter to be pincht and nipt in the Regent Hous. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. iv. 62 in Church-hist. Brit. The Arch-bishop personally visited the collective Body of the Vniversity, in the Congregation, or Regent-House. 1788 J. Beverley Acct. Ceremonies Univ. Cambr. 21 The Heads of College or (in their Absence) the Presidents, meet in the Regent House, to nominate and prick two Persons; one of whom is to be elected Vicechancellor by the Senate. 1894 Dict. National Biogr. XXXVIII. 58/1 On the accession of Queen Mary he organized a curious attack in the regent house on Dr. Sandys. 1996 Notes for Praelectors (Univ. Cambr.) 4 Each year there are seven Congregations of the Regent House at which degrees are conferred. < as lemmas |
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